Since I typically screw things up WRT this game, I'll deliberately screw it up right from the get-go by NOT choosing a single place, but a river. Rolls-Royce used to name turbine engines after rivers in the UK, so I'll do likewise and pick the River Nene. Because it's pronounced two ways depending on how far inland one goes, the possibilities for rhyming are pretty broad. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/River_Nene

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This message has been edited. Last edited by: Geoff, September 23, 2017 16:18

My above link shows it to be either Neen or Ninn, or so it seems to me. Arnie, Bob, Fat Stan, or some other Brit, would you care to clarify? I say, "Nay" to the Nay-nay-sayers, but so long as you don't call it, "Ohio" you can do as you like.

This reminds me of how the Indiana locals destroy their French heritage by saying "Noter Daym," "Terra Hote," "Versails," etc, yet they get "Russiaville" just about right. Go figure...

Hmmm, interesting. I checked three sites, and they all said it as: nay-nay. Here is one of them. This last one clearly stresses the first syllable, so that's what I'll do. My other two did not seem to stress either syllable.

Okay, I hate to admit this, Geoff, but I don't know what some of those pronunciation letters and marks mean. Tell me it rhymes with hen or bean though, and I understand. I know only basic pronunciation marks.

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Darn! No limericks and we're up the creek already! It's really weird that some searches do, as Nancy said, link to a goose (nay-nay), not to a river! Wikipedia may, as Z said, be one's friend, but not always Google!

Well, so far I’ve discovered that it’s the slowest-flowing river in England and the tenth largest. Maybe that’s the one that Hoagy Carmichael and Sidney Arodin wrote about (Lazy River). And the Nene, the Witham, the Welland, and the Great Ouse all come out in The Wash. Must be where that saying comes from. But I still can’t come up with a limerick.

Originally posted by sattva:Okay, I hate to admit this, Geoff, but I don't know what some of those pronunciation letters and marks mean. Tell me it rhymes with hen or bean though, and I understand. I know only basic pronunciation marks.

Sattva, true confession time-- glad I'm not the only one! Learning that pronunciation code is on my bucket list.

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You are remembering some of the oldies but goodies! I miss z from time to time, and even goofy has been a bit missing lately, not to mention my own husband. Heck, when push comes to shove, don't tell Bob, but I even miss Richard sometimes.

Hab has been around; he is probably just busy. He'll be back. I'll contact Greg.

Well, let's see: Hmmmm.... Using the less common pronunciation, you could write, "A lady who lives near the NeneWhose writing is with a quill penMistook her ink wellFor some old K-Y jell,,," And you get to finish it!